What is your routine like with bottles/food and naps?

Just wondering whether to try and adjust our daily routine, at bedtime it's taking forever to settle her, for example, we have been trying to settle her since half 8 and its now 10:50pm and she won't sleep, won't go in her crib without screaming etc. When we pick her up she either cries still or smiles and tries to play

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Between 6 and 6:30 wake
7:00 bottle
8:30 breakfast
9:30 nap
11:00 bottle
12:30 lunch
2:00 nap
3:30 bottle
6:30 bottle
6:45 bedtime

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7:30/7:45 - wake and feed
9:00 - breakfast
10:00 - nap
11/11:15 - feed
12:00 - lunch
2:00 - nap
3:00 feed
5/5:30 - dinner
6:30 - feed
7:30/7:45 - bath, bottle, bed

It works for us. She sleeps through no problem. I noticed having her naps shorted helped her at night. I always have to wake her. I hope you manage to sort something to help you! You're doing amazing! Xx

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We don't do a traditional early routine but this is our routine:

9-9.30 wake and breatfeed
10:00 - breakfast
11:30 boob feed
12:30/1 - lunch
2:00 - boob feed and nap
4:00 - wakes up and afternoon snack
5:00 - boob feed
7:00 - dinner
8:30 - bath, bottle of what I pump middle of the night as she sleeps through + boob, bed

She sleeps 12-13h at night x

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This has been our routine for a couple weeks now & is working well.
Wakes around 7am.
7.30- porridge & fruit
9- bottle
10/10.30- nap
12ish- snack
1- bottle
1.30/2- lunch
2- nap
5/5.30- dinner & pudding
6.45- bottle & asleep for 7 until 7am.

He does have little 10/15 min naps in the car too if we’re going somewhere x

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hey! How long are your little girls naps? I think my boys long naps are affecting his night sleep 😩x

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All these babies sleeping through and then there’s mine who takes short naps and still doesn’t sleep through🫠
wakes 5/6/7am- 5/6oz bottle, take him in the bed with me and he will sometimes go back to sleep until around 8am
Breakfast 8ish am
Play time, get ready
10/10.30 bottle 4/5oz (won’t take bigger feeds)
11ish nap - will usually sleep 30-45mins
12/12.30 lunch
Play time
Bottle 2ish
Nap 2/3pm - will usually sleep around 30-45mins
Sometimes top up bottle in afternoon after nap 4/5oz or small snack
Play time, walk
5/5.30pm dinner, yog for pud
Play time
6/6.30 bath time
7/7.30pm 5/6oz bottle in bedroom with low lights & star machine, story afterwards
Bedtime between 7&8pm, depending on naps that day and also sleepy cues, will sometimes take up as early as 6.45/50 if tired and give bottle

Usually wakes between 9&10pm for bottle, 4/5oz, if doesn’t wake I give dreamfeed around 10pm of 4/5oz

Can wake at 12, or 1 or 2 and then again at 4 or 5 but every night is different

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may be of no help at all but maybe baby is waking out of habit rather than hunger? My EBF baby was waking constantly throughout the night and I would just feed on demand until HV suggested it was just through habit. He now has a feed at 7pm and the next feed (at earliest) is 5am but mostly around 6/6:30am.
When he woke up I would just cuddle and settle him back down unless I thought he was genuinely hungry. After a few nights he stopped waking for feeds.

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@Elle so her morning nap is about 1hr-1.5hr max and then 1hr in the afternoon. As she sleeps 12 hours at night she doesn't need as much sleep in the day. It just naturally worked

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